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Cracking the particle code of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs boson /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moffat, John W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Higgs bosons.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : CERN, April 2008
  • What is everything made of?
  • Detecting subatomic particles
  • Group theory and gauge invariance
  • Looking for something new at the LHC
  • The Higgs particle/field and weak interactions
  • Data that go bump in the night
  • Trying to identify the 125 GeV bump
  • Electroweak gauge theories
  • The discovery of a new boson : is it the Higgs or not?
  • Do we live in a naturally tuned universe?
  • The last word until 2016
  • Glossary.